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Two days after their conversation in the garden, two days of suffering. Elijah spent the entire days outside, wandering in the fields in his wolf form. He could not go home without Alexander’s scent hitting his nose. He ran without knowing where he was going, he stumbled on tree trunks and continued despite his injuries because he could not feel them as they did not equal the pain he felt, knowing he could lose his mate one minute or another.

He approached the river and stopped, his heart threatening to burst as he remembered when Lucas left him drowning in the cold water. All the bad memories of his father surged in his head, and he could not convince himself to swim. His breath was diminishing as he struggled to get to the surface, and he felt his chest tighten as water hid his s